The document outlines a presentation from SharePoint Saturday Houston, focusing on building a search-driven site using SharePoint 2013, presented by Brian Culver. Key topics include the architecture of a product catalog site, the advantages of a search-driven publishing model, and practical steps for configuring a catalog site. It also provides information about collaborating and sharing resources related to SharePoint development and usage.

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SharePoint 2013 Catalog Sites
Brian Culver
Build a SharePoint 2013 Search Driven Application

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Welcome to SharePoint Saturday Houston
• Please turn off all electronic devices or set them to vibrate
• If you must take a phone call, please do so in the hall so as not
to disturb others
• Special thanks to our Title Sponsor, ProSymmetry
Thank you for being a part of the
5th Annual SharePoint Saturday
for the greater Houston area!

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Thanks to all our Sponsors!

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Information
• Speaker presentation slides should be available
from the SPSHOU website within a week or so
• The Houston SharePoint User Group will be
having it’s next meeting Wednesday April 15th.
Please join us at www.h-spug.org

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About Brian Culver
– SharePoint Solutions Architect for Expert Point Solutions
– Based in Houston, TX
– Author
• ProveIT!
• SharePoint 2010 Unleashed
• Various White Papers
– Speaker and Blogger

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Session Agenda
• What is a Search Driven site?
• Search Driven Publishing Model
– Catalog Architecture
– Managed Navigation
– Content By Search Web Part
– Display Templates
– Query Builder
– Query Rules

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What is a Search Driven Site?
A site driven by search … right?
• Sounds complicated until you see it.
• Examples:
– Best Buy
– Amazon
Core Concepts
• Navigation Driven by metadata
• Published Content is the focus
• Site Structure very simple
Implementation
• Two Publishing Pages
• Friendly URLs
• Content can be anywhere

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What is a Search Driven Site?
A site driven by search … right?
• Sounds complicated until you see it.
• Examples:
– Best Buy
– Amazon
Core Concepts
• Navigation Driven by metadata
• Published Content is the focus
• Site Structure very simple
Implementation
• Two Publishing Pages
• Friendly URLs
• Content can be anywhere

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The Search Driven Publishing Model
The Product Catalog site
• Used for content storage
• Product Content Type
• Taxonomy
The Publishing site
• Presentation Layer
• Display Templates
• Content By Search Webpart
The Publishing site consumes the catalog
data and presents it to the end user.

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Advantages of a Search Driven Publishing Model
Breakdown site collection boundaries
Eliminate large list thresholds
Allows for flexible & dynamic publishing
Separate presentation from storage

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The Blocks of the Search Driven Publishing Model?
Product
Catalog Site
Content
Catalogs
Managed
Navigation
Content
Types
Publishing Site
Query
Builder
Query
Rules
Display
Templates
Content
Search
Web Parts

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Product Catalog Architecture - Site Template

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Product Catalog Architecture - Content Types & Site Columns
• Content Types
• Site Columns

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Product Catalog Architecture
The “Product” Content Type

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Product Catalog Architecture - Products List

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Build your Navigation Term Set
• Product Hierarchy

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Term Set Settings

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Term Set Navigation

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Product Catalog Page Architecture

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Audio
Cameras
Computers
Home appliances
Phones
TV and video
Adaptive experiences empower web developers to create portals
based on managed navigation and a few dynamic pages
Audio
Cameras
Computers
Home appliances
Phones
TV and video
Friendly URL
http://contoso.com/cameras
Use page
maincategory.asp
x
Search
CONTENT SEARCH WEB
PART
TERM STORE
NAVIGATION
TAXONOMY
Filter query by
CATEGORY: Cameras
Product Catalog Page Architecture

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Audio
Cameras
Computers
Home appliances
Phones
TV and video
TERM STORE
NAVIGATION
TAXONOMY
Friendly URL
http://contoso.com/computers
Use page
maincategory.asp
x
Adaptive experiences empower web developers to create portals
based on managed navigation and a few dynamic pages
Search
CONTENT SEARCH WEB
PART
Filter query by
CATEGORY: Computers
Product Catalog Page Architecture

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Content Search Web Part
Content Search
Web Parts

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Content Search Web Part
Content Search
Web Parts

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Search Driven Content Web Parts

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Display Templates
• Many options OOTB
• Create your own

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Display Templates
Make your own in HTML
& JavaScript
Many ship Out-of the-
Box
Display Templates

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Query Builder
IW focusedUI based
Allows
“advanced
mode”
Provides
Test &
Preview
Add Refiners
Query Builder

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Query Rules
IW focused
Manipulate
Search
Results
UI based
Query Rules

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Catalog Settings..

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Catalog Settings..

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Catalog Enabling Catalog Connection
Catalog Publishing

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Managed
Navigation
New Nav
Provider
Friendly URLS
Product
Catalog
integration
Terms can be
site
structures
1:1 binding of
Site
Collection to
Term Set
Managed Navigation

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Managed navigation
• Drive your navigation and URLs based
on Term Store hierarchies
• Clean URLs for actual end users
– www.contoso.com/careers
– www.contoso.com/aboutus
• Define settings for navigation
in terms store manager
• Provides also dynamic topic
pages capability for minimizing
amount of physical pages for catalog
type sites

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Refiners and faceted navigation
• Define refiners for catalog content drill
down in catalog drive scenarios
• Provides easy filtering capabilities for
catalog information
• Content editors can define which
managed properties are available as
refinements
• UI rending can be customized for each
refiner
• Different data types have different
rendering options

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Cross Site Publishing
“Create content in an Authoring
environment and use it in any one of your
SharePoint publishing environments.”
Cross Site
Publishing
URL
manipulation
Multi-branding
Authoring and
Production tiers
Multilingual
Things to know:
1. This is not content
deployment
2. Requires the
Publishing feature
3. Requires a Catalog
Flexibility in
Page Content

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Cross Site Publishing
Why XSP?:
1. Need to Publish >1 location
2. Need a multilingual site
3. Need to separate authoring
and publishing

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Steps for Configure a Catalog Site
1. Create site collections for cross-site publishing.
• Product Catalog Site
• Publishing Site
2. Import/Build (Products) list content into the Product Catalog Site.
3. How to enable a list as a catalog.
4. Set up search and enable crawling of your catalog content.
5. Connect Catalog in your Publishing site.
6. Upload and apply a new master page to a publishing site
7. Upload page layouts and create new pages in a publishing site
8. Assign a category page and a catalog item page to a term
9. Configure the query in a Content Search Web Part on a category page
10.Configure the query in a Content Search Web Part on a catalog item page
11.Upload and apply display templates to the Content Search Web Part
12.Plan and Configure to use refiners for faceted navigation
13.Add refiners for faceted navigation to a publishing site
14.Add a Taxonomy Refinement Panel Web Part to a publishing site

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Product Catalog Demo

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New Site Search Admin Tasks
 Just to summarize, here are things site admins
can do to manage search themselves:
Task
Site
Collection
Admin
Site Admin
Create and/or override Query Rules, including Promoted Results
Create and/or override Result types and display templates
Create and/or override Result Sources, either for remote locations
or as a custom search “vertical”
Create managed properties
Create refiners
Start a local crawl – can even be done down to the list level

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Useful Links and Resources
• Technet Import Scripts
– http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Import-list-content-to-f735d7fb
• Check for the Latest Slide Deck
– http://www.slideshare.net/bculver
• Videos for Search Driven Sites
– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTVW5fqafy4
– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dJ9k2hu11o

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Thank you!
Brian Culver, MCM
Twitter:
@spbrianculver
E-mail:
brian.culver@expertpointsolutions.com
Blog:
http://blog.expertpointsolutions.com/
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